10 ANONACE^. lUvaria. 



Low jungle near the Buddhist Temple, East Point, Champion ; -ai the foot of Mount 

 Victoria, miford, also Bance. Spreads over the Malayan Peninsula, the Indian Archipe- 

 lago, and northward to the Philippines. 



3. U. microcarpa. Champ, in Kew Journ. Bat. iii. 356. A low shrub, 

 with weak or sometimes half-climbing branches, the young parts rusty-downy. 

 Leaves oval or oblong, 3 to 5 in. long, cordate at the base, rusty-downy un- 

 derneath. Peduncles i to 1 in. long, leaf-opposed, 1- or 3-flowered. Petals 

 broadly oval or orbicular, not much above i in. long. Berries stipitate, glo- 

 bular or shortly oblong, 3 to 6 lines long, tomentose or at length glabrous, 

 without dorsal ribs. — U. badiiflora, Hance in "Walp. Ann. ii. 19. 



Very common in Hongkong, Ghampiim and others; and in the islands about Macao, 

 but not exactly matched with any from more distant countries. It appeals aUied to TJ. ritfa, 

 Bl., an Archipelago species, but has broader leaves, larger flowers, and much smaller berries, 

 not transversely sulcate. 



3. AETABOTBYS, E. Br. 



Sepals cohering at the base. Petals 6, valvate in the bud in each series, 

 enclosing the stamens and pistils in their hollow base, spreading in the upper 

 part. Stamens numerous, closely packed, oblong or wedge-shaped. Carpels 

 several, oval or oblong, with 3 erect ovules in each. Styles oval or oblong, 

 usually reflexed. Eipe carpels baccate, usually 1-seeded. — Woody climbers. 

 Leaves smooth and shining. Peduncles 1- or 3-flowered, many of them thick- 

 ened and recurved, becoming hard woody hooks. 



A rather small genus, well marked by its habit, chiefly Asiatic, with one African species. 



Petals 6-9 lines long, pubescent. Carpels hairy \. A.Blumei. 



Petals above an inch long, glabrous. Carpels glabrous i. A. odoratissima. 



1. A. Blumei, Hoolc. and Thorns. M. Ind. i. 138 {partly). A woody 

 climber, slightly pubescent on the young shoots, at length glabrous. Leaves oval- 

 elliptical or oblong, obtusely acuminate, 3 to 3 or sometimes 4 in. long, coria- 

 ceous, smooth and shining ; the veins slender but distinct, and the principal 

 ones arched and connected together at some distance from the margin. Hooked 

 peduncles short, bearing one flower on a pedicel of 4 or 5 lines, and often the 

 rudiments of 3 or 3 others. Sepals very short and broad. Petals ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, 6 to 9 lines long, very thick and pubescent ; the inner ones very simi- 

 lar to the outer. Carpels 6 to 8, hairy. 



Abundant near the Buddhist Temple, East Point, and in the woods near the Waterfall in 

 the Happy Valley, Champion. T have seen no specimen from elsewhere. 



Notwithstanding the authority above quoted, I think that the Hongkong specimens agree 

 much better with Blume's character and figure of A. hamata, than of his A. odoratissima, 

 which is correctly distinguished by Hooker and Thomson from the following, A. odoratis- 

 sima, Br. Probably our plant is identical with the China one included by Blume in his A. 

 hamata, but different, as a variety at least, from the Java one. 



3. A. odoratissima, Br.; Bot.Beg.t.'Vi,%. A tall climber, like the last, 

 but quite glabrous. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 4 to 6 in. long, acute 

 at both ends, scarcely coriaceous, although shining ; the veins finer than in A. 

 Blumei, but the principal ones much more branched and less prominently ar- 

 cuate. Hooked peduncles 1- or 3-flowered. Sepals small. Petals oblong- 

 lanceolate, more than an inch long, ^d perfectly glabrous, the inner ones 

 similar to the outer. Carpels few and glabrous. 



